{"id":47286,"date":"2022-05-04T20:34:31","date_gmt":"2022-05-04T18:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=47286"},"modified":"2022-05-06T23:45:50","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T21:45:50","slug":"the-process-of-painting-of-the-tails-of-a-spanish-ef-18-hornet-fighter-from-15th-wing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/05\/04\/the-process-of-painting-of-the-tails-of-a-spanish-ef-18-hornet-fighter-from-15th-wing\/","title":{"rendered":"The process of painting of the tails of a Spanish EF-18 Hornet fighter from 15th Wing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From May 9 to 20, the Araxos Air Base, in Greece, will host a new NATO Tiger Meet, to which 10 air units from various countries are invited.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2019\/08\/15\/baltic-the-maneuver-of-the-spanish-ef-18-that-left-the-russian-su-27-fighter-at-a-disadvantage\/\">Baltic: the maneuver of the Spanish EF-18 that left the Russian Su-27 fighter at a disadvantage<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"http:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2019\/08\/13\/confrontation-between-a-spanish-ef-18m-and-two-russian-su-27-fighters-over-the-baltic-sea\/\">Confrontation between a Spanish EF-18M and two Russian Su-27 fighters over the Baltic Sea<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.natotigers.org\/tiger-meet\/ntm2022\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">One of the participating units will be the 15th Wing of the Air Combat Command<\/a> <strong>of the Spanish Air Force<\/strong>, based in Zaragoza and equipped with EF-18M Hornet fighter-bombers. It will be accompanied in Greece by other \"tiger\" squadrons from<strong> Germany, Belgium, the Czech Republic, France, Greece, Italy and Switzerland<\/strong>, as well as observers from Austria, the Netherlands and Poland.<\/p>\n<p><strong>NATO tiger squadrons have the custom of decorating their planes with motifs alluding to these meets.<\/strong> Sometimes the decoration covers the entire fuselage of the plane. In Spain, the custom is to decorate the drifts of the participating fighters. <strong>The Spanish Air Force has published today a video of the process of painting the drifts of an EF-18 from Wing 15 that will attend that meet.<\/strong> In addition to the classic tiger (which is the emblem of the Tiger Meet and also of the aforementioned Spanish unit), <strong>a logo alluding to the 35th anniversary of Wing 15, which was celebrated last year, has been painted<\/strong> on the inside of the tails:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PMMgPSTCw3o\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From May 9 to 20, the Araxos Air Base, in Greece, will host a new NATO Tiger Meet, to which 10 air units from various countries are invited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12876,11546],"tags":[16527,1240,1239,16526,11875],"class_list":["post-47286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excluir-de-anotaciones-eng","category-military-aviation","tag-abraxos-air-base","tag-ala-15","tag-mcdonnell-douglas-ef-18-hornet","tag-nato-tiger-meet-2022","tag-spanish-air-force"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47286"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}